seignioryseignoryn.

Brit.

/ˈseɪnjəri/, U.S.

/ˈseɪnjəri/

Forms: Middle English senurre, Middle English senurie, senery, Middle English senowrye; Middle English Scottish senȝhory, senȝeroy, senȝhowry, Middle English senyoury (Scottish senȝoury, senȝory), seniourie, Middle English–1600s seniory, seniorie, (Middle English seniore), senȝowry, 1500s senȝeory, senȝeorie, 1500s–1600s senyeory; Middle English seynorye, Middle English seynu(r)rye, Middle English seynore, seinuri, Middle English seynourye; Middle English seinȝnery, Middle English sengnurie, syngnory; Middle English segnoury, 1500s segnorie, segniory, 1500s–1600s segniorie, 1500s segnyorye; Middle English–1500s seygnery, seiȝnory, Middle English seignurie, Middle English–1500s seignorye, seygno(u)rye, seignourie, seignoury(e, seygnourie, Middle English–1600s seigniorie, seignori(ȝ)e, (1600s seigniore, siegniory, seignieurie), Middle English– seignory, 1500s– seigniory.

Etymology: < Old French seignorie (modern French refashioned seigneurie ), < seigneur : see seignior n. Compare Spanish señoría , Portuguese senhoria , Italian signoria . See also seigneury n., signory n.

†1.

a. Lordship, domination, sovereignty. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [noun] > chief authority or dominion

ealdordomeOE

lord-domeOE

lordshipeOE

aldershipOE

danger?c1225

seignioryc1290

demesnec1300

lordheada1325

lordshippingc1384

dominationc1386

subjectiona1393

signory?a1425

dominionc1430

signority1525

seigniority1596

dynasty1613

seigniorage1656

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 115/320 Ȝif he hadde of is owene flesche al-ovt þe seignorie.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 3858 He wolde wende Vor to winne seygnorie aboute in oþer ende.

a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 597 He shal habbe seignorye Of þis rounde myddell erd.

c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 3159 Thei made lettres..To eche a lond and prouynce That Gregeys hadde in seygnorye.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 66 Whan thou haste moste seignourye and lordships than shalt thou [etc.].

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 196 Mony has jurisdiccioun and seignoury be way of dede and nocht be way of lawe.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 298 Covatiss of senȝhory [1489 Adv. senȝowry].

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biii^v That many yeres did hold such seignorie.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. i The Turke..by the discord of christen princes hath amplified greatly his seigniory and dominion.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 66 If hee would..do homage to him, he should re-accept his seniory.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccclxi, in Poems (1878) IV. 91 The more Politicke Molls, (who in fatter Soyles, have Seigneiorie).

a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. ii. 20 What were..the Seignorie of the World, but Vanity of Vanities?

b. quasi-archaic. your seignorie = ‘your lordship’: attributed to a foreign speaker.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun]

yea1225

my Lordc1300

seigniorc1330

squire1382

noblessec1390

lordship1394

grace1423

gentlenessc1425

magnificencec1425

noblenessc1425

greatness1473

worshipc1475

your mightinessa1500

excellency?1533

celsitude1535

altitude1543

Your Honour1551

sublimity1553

excellencea1592

captal1592

gentleperson1597

clemencya1600

gravity1618

grace1625

grandeur1632

eximiousness1648

professorship1656

prince1677

excellenceshipc1716

Graceship1804

seigniorship1823

valiancy1828

your seignorie1829

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vi. 155 ‘It may be your seignorie is right,’ answered the guide.

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vii. 186 I can tell you the truth, so I were sure it would not offend your seignorie.

a. spec. Feudal lordship or dominion; the authority, rights, and privileges of a feudal lord.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > [noun] > feudal rights > of superior

superiority1393

seigniory1464

1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 524/1 Articles of Liberteez to Seignorie apperteynyng.

1567 in F. J. Baigent Coll. Rec. & Documents Crondal (1891) 171 With suche segnyorye and preferment of the said under tenauntes as the personne so atteyncted had before the said atteyndour.

1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 3 Alwaies saving to the King and to other Lords their Seigniories and Franchises.

1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches xiv. 473 Reserving to the chiefs certain rights of seigniory over the respective domains.

1872 W. H. Dixon W. Penn (rev. ed.) xxii. 188 James thought..the rights of seigniory too large.

b. A particular feudal lordship; in English Law chiefly, the relation of the lord to the tenants of a manor. seigniory appendant, seigniory in gross: see quot. 1886. By some writers seigniory has been used as equivalent to ‘seigniory in gross’.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > [noun] > feudal rights > of superior > of particular lordship

seigniory?1466

?1466 Copy of Statement in Name of Edward IV in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 551 Their ancetors had been possessed of a court and seniory in the towne of Paston.

1482 Rolls of Parl. VI. 204/2 Any Tenaunt holdyng..by Knyghts service, by reason of any Seignorie or Lordshipp.

1553 Act 1 Mary Stat. ii. c. 5 Any person..having a Seignorie by reason of any Castells,..[etc.]..of him..holden by Knightes service.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 113/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Matthew did..seeke to vsurpe the name of a segniorie of the Oneiles, and the dominions apperteining to that segniorie and surname.

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue ii. 43 He may haue thereby a kind of seignory, a Lordship or gouernement in grosse ouer his Tenants by contract or couenant, but no Mannor.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 109 Were you not restor'd To all the Duke of Norfolkes Seignories, Your Noble, and right well-remembred Fathers?

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 7 If tenant in ancient demesne be disseised by the Lord, whereby the seigniory is suspended,..Francke fee is no plea.

1652 tr. A. Fitzherbert New Natura Brevium 6 If a man hold of a Lord, as of Seigniory in gross, which is not any Manor, for which Seigniory he cannot keep any Court.

1730 M. Wright Introd. Law Tenures (new ed.) 30 Neither could the Lord alien or transfer his Seigniory or Superiority to another, without the Consent of his Feudatary.

1844 J. Williams Real Property Law (1879) 322 By the grant of an estate in fee simple, he necessarily parted with the feudal possession... The grantee, however, became his tenant... This simply having a free tenant in fee simple was called a seignory.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 40 If the lord retained no lands in his own hands, but all the lands within the manor were held by free tenants, he was said to have a seignory, or a seignory in gross.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 623/2 They [seignories] are regarded as incorporeal hereditaments, and are either appendant or in gross. A seignory appendant passes with the grant of the manor; a seignory in gross—that is a seignory which has been severed from the demesne lands of the manor to which it was originally appendant—must be specially conveyed by deed of grant.

3. The territory under the dominion of a lord; esp. a feudal domain. Sometimes used for seigneury n. with reference to France or Canada.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > seignory

seigniory1338

lordshipa1375

feec1400

señoria1534

commanderya1641

commendatory1762

feud1806

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of feudal lord

seigniory1338

signoryc1515

district1611

lordship marcher1613

commot1628

commanderya1641

ligialty1651

distressa1658

seigneury1683

commendatory1762

1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 49 Whan Knoute had resceyued boþe þe seignories, He parted þe lond in foure parties.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. i. 6 To recoure londes, seignoryes or ther thynges.

1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 7 Prouided alwayes, that euery lorde marcher haue the for~faytes..within their seygnories, liberties, aed [sic] frauncheses royall.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. v. xxix. 107 A third Seignorie or Shire there is that goeth to Apamia.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 71 The Venetians: by whom it was holden as a part of their seignorie almost an hundred yeares.

1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 7 Crime..committed, within the Seignory of this pettie Principality.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 3 The codes of the Germans..were superseded by these local customs: each seignory and province had its own.

1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 144 The Lord of the Manor..could search for stolen goods within the extent of his seignory.

figurative.?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing Ep. Ded. sig. A.iij I will poure out prayers vnto the Lord of heauen and earth, to sende you..after this life, neuer ceassing & endlesse ioyes in the heauenly Seniorie.a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. vii. sig. Mm4 In one place lay disinherited heades, dispossessed of their naturall seignories.

4. A body of ‘seigniors’ or lords. Often with reference to Italy, = signoria n., signory n. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > lord > [noun] > collectively

seigniory1485

seniority1517

lordshipc1600

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > lord > body of lords

seigniory1485

seniority1517

lordshipc1600

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. eij^v/1 Ye myght be blamed, seen that your seygnorye ne your lordes be not here now present.

1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 12 The Duke..with all the Senyorye went in ther Archa triumphali.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 84 Ouer all which, the seignorie neuerthelesse had a generall care.

1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Wks. (1890) IV. 134 The new decree by which the seigniory of Florence recalled a portion of the exiles.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seigniory
释义	seignioryseignoryn. Brit. /ˈseɪnjəri/, U.S. /ˈseɪnjəri/ Forms: Middle English senurre, Middle English senurie, senery, Middle English senowrye; Middle English Scottish senȝhory, senȝeroy, senȝhowry, Middle English senyoury (Scottish senȝoury, senȝory), seniourie, Middle English–1600s seniory, seniorie, (Middle English seniore), senȝowry, 1500s senȝeory, senȝeorie, 1500s–1600s senyeory; Middle English seynorye, Middle English seynu(r)rye, Middle English seynore, seinuri, Middle English seynourye; Middle English seinȝnery, Middle English sengnurie, syngnory; Middle English segnoury, 1500s segnorie, segniory, 1500s–1600s segniorie, 1500s segnyorye; Middle English–1500s seygnery, seiȝnory, Middle English seignurie, Middle English–1500s seignorye, seygno(u)rye, seignourie, seignoury(e, seygnourie, Middle English–1600s seigniorie, seignori(ȝ)e, (1600s seigniore, siegniory, seignieurie), Middle English– seignory, 1500s– seigniory. Etymology: < Old French seignorie (modern French refashioned seigneurie ), < seigneur : see seignior n. Compare Spanish señoría , Portuguese senhoria , Italian signoria . See also seigneury n., signory n. †1. a. Lordship, domination, sovereignty. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > chief authority or dominion ealdordomeOE lord-domeOE lordshipeOE aldershipOE danger?c1225 seignioryc1290 demesnec1300 lordheada1325 lordshippingc1384 dominationc1386 subjectiona1393 signory?a1425 dominionc1430 signority1525 seigniority1596 dynasty1613 seigniorage1656 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 115/320 Ȝif he hadde of is owene flesche al-ovt þe seignorie. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 3858 He wolde wende Vor to winne seygnorie aboute in oþer ende. a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 597 He shal habbe seignorye Of þis rounde myddell erd. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 3159 Thei made lettres..To eche a lond and prouynce That Gregeys hadde in seygnorye. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 66 Whan thou haste moste seignourye and lordships than shalt thou [etc.]. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 196 Mony has jurisdiccioun and seignoury be way of dede and nocht be way of lawe. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 298 Covatiss of senȝhory [1489 Adv. senȝowry]. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biii^v That many yeres did hold such seignorie. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. i The Turke..by the discord of christen princes hath amplified greatly his seigniory and dominion. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 66 If hee would..do homage to him, he should re-accept his seniory. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccclxi, in Poems (1878) IV. 91 The more Politicke Molls, (who in fatter Soyles, have Seigneiorie). a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. ii. 20 What were..the Seignorie of the World, but Vanity of Vanities? b. quasi-archaic. your seignorie = ‘your lordship’: attributed to a foreign speaker. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] yea1225 my Lordc1300 seigniorc1330 squire1382 noblessec1390 lordship1394 grace1423 gentlenessc1425 magnificencec1425 noblenessc1425 greatness1473 worshipc1475 your mightinessa1500 excellency?1533 celsitude1535 altitude1543 Your Honour1551 sublimity1553 excellencea1592 captal1592 gentleperson1597 clemencya1600 gravity1618 grace1625 grandeur1632 eximiousness1648 professorship1656 prince1677 excellenceshipc1716 Graceship1804 seigniorship1823 valiancy1828 your seignorie1829 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vi. 155 ‘It may be your seignorie is right,’ answered the guide. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vii. 186 I can tell you the truth, so I were sure it would not offend your seignorie. 2. a. spec. Feudal lordship or dominion; the authority, rights, and privileges of a feudal lord. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > feudal rights > of superior superiority1393 seigniory1464 1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 524/1 Articles of Liberteez to Seignorie apperteynyng. 1567 in F. J. Baigent Coll. Rec. & Documents Crondal (1891) 171 With suche segnyorye and preferment of the said under tenauntes as the personne so atteyncted had before the said atteyndour. 1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 3 Alwaies saving to the King and to other Lords their Seigniories and Franchises. 1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches xiv. 473 Reserving to the chiefs certain rights of seigniory over the respective domains. 1872 W. H. Dixon W. Penn (rev. ed.) xxii. 188 James thought..the rights of seigniory too large. b. A particular feudal lordship; in English Law chiefly, the relation of the lord to the tenants of a manor. seigniory appendant, seigniory in gross: see quot. 1886. By some writers seigniory has been used as equivalent to ‘seigniory in gross’. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > feudal rights > of superior > of particular lordship seigniory?1466 ?1466 Copy of Statement in Name of Edward IV in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 551 Their ancetors had been possessed of a court and seniory in the towne of Paston. 1482 Rolls of Parl. VI. 204/2 Any Tenaunt holdyng..by Knyghts service, by reason of any Seignorie or Lordshipp. 1553 Act 1 Mary Stat. ii. c. 5 Any person..having a Seignorie by reason of any Castells,..[etc.]..of him..holden by Knightes service. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 113/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Matthew did..seeke to vsurpe the name of a segniorie of the Oneiles, and the dominions apperteining to that segniorie and surname. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue ii. 43 He may haue thereby a kind of seignory, a Lordship or gouernement in grosse ouer his Tenants by contract or couenant, but no Mannor. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 109 Were you not restor'd To all the Duke of Norfolkes Seignories, Your Noble, and right well-remembred Fathers? a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 7 If tenant in ancient demesne be disseised by the Lord, whereby the seigniory is suspended,..Francke fee is no plea. 1652 tr. A. Fitzherbert New Natura Brevium 6 If a man hold of a Lord, as of Seigniory in gross, which is not any Manor, for which Seigniory he cannot keep any Court. 1730 M. Wright Introd. Law Tenures (new ed.) 30 Neither could the Lord alien or transfer his Seigniory or Superiority to another, without the Consent of his Feudatary. 1844 J. Williams Real Property Law (1879) 322 By the grant of an estate in fee simple, he necessarily parted with the feudal possession... The grantee, however, became his tenant... This simply having a free tenant in fee simple was called a seignory. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 40 If the lord retained no lands in his own hands, but all the lands within the manor were held by free tenants, he was said to have a seignory, or a seignory in gross. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 623/2 They [seignories] are regarded as incorporeal hereditaments, and are either appendant or in gross. A seignory appendant passes with the grant of the manor; a seignory in gross—that is a seignory which has been severed from the demesne lands of the manor to which it was originally appendant—must be specially conveyed by deed of grant. 3. The territory under the dominion of a lord; esp. a feudal domain. Sometimes used for seigneury n. with reference to France or Canada. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > seignory seigniory1338 lordshipa1375 feec1400 señoria1534 commanderya1641 commendatory1762 feud1806 society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of feudal lord seigniory1338 signoryc1515 district1611 lordship marcher1613 commot1628 commanderya1641 ligialty1651 distressa1658 seigneury1683 commendatory1762 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 49 Whan Knoute had resceyued boþe þe seignories, He parted þe lond in foure parties. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. i. 6 To recoure londes, seignoryes or ther thynges. 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 7 Prouided alwayes, that euery lorde marcher haue the for~faytes..within their seygnories, liberties, aed [sic] frauncheses royall. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. v. xxix. 107 A third Seignorie or Shire there is that goeth to Apamia. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 71 The Venetians: by whom it was holden as a part of their seignorie almost an hundred yeares. 1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar 7 Crime..committed, within the Seignory of this pettie Principality. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 3 The codes of the Germans..were superseded by these local customs: each seignory and province had its own. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 144 The Lord of the Manor..could search for stolen goods within the extent of his seignory. figurative.?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing Ep. Ded. sig. A.iij I will poure out prayers vnto the Lord of heauen and earth, to sende you..after this life, neuer ceassing & endlesse ioyes in the heauenly Seniorie.a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. vii. sig. Mm4 In one place lay disinherited heades, dispossessed of their naturall seignories. 4. A body of ‘seigniors’ or lords. Often with reference to Italy, = signoria n., signory n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > lord > [noun] > collectively seigniory1485 seniority1517 lordshipc1600 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > lord > body of lords seigniory1485 seniority1517 lordshipc1600 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. eij^v/1 Ye myght be blamed, seen that your seygnorye ne your lordes be not here now present. 1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 12 The Duke..with all the Senyorye went in ther Archa triumphali. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 84 Ouer all which, the seignorie neuerthelesse had a generall care. 1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Wks. (1890) IV. 134 The new decree by which the seigniory of Florence recalled a portion of the exiles. 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